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Rappaport, Glass, Greene, & Levine, LLP
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Charles J. Rappaport, the founding partner of RGG&L, is now the managing partner of the New York City office. He has been practicing law since 1964, the year he was admitted to the New York Bar. "I have tried hundreds of cases in my career, and I remember every one of them," he says. "Law schools teach students not to become emotionally involved with their clients. It is a lesson I never learned!"
A lifelong New Yorker, Chuck graduated from New York University in 1960 and the Fordham University School of Law in 1963, and is admitted to practice in New York State and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He has tried cases in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and Florida, and has won million and multi-million dollar verdicts for his clients.
Professional legal organizations often tap him to lecture in areas of his particular expertise, including jury selection, making closing arguments, taking depositions, and examining expert witnesses. He is a member of the Suffolk County and New York State Bar Associations; the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; the New York Academy of Trial Lawyers; the Nassau/Suffolk Trial Lawyers Association; and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, where he has served as a Director for more than twenty years. In 2006, Chuck received the New York State Trial Lawyers Association's Award of Honor for Civil Justice.
Active in many charities, Chuck is an officer and trustee of Daytop Village, our Country’s oldest and largest drug rehabilitation organization. He was recently honored by the Association For Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities where he has played an active role since 1968. He has adopted as his own the words of Abraham Lincoln, who said, “we never stand so tall as when we stoop to help a child”.
Chuck and his lovely wife Barbara divide their time between Manhattan, Easthampton and Florida. They have a warm spot in their hearts for Long Island where they raised their four children. Barbara and Chuck share a passion for skiing and golf, books and fine food, and, most of all, their nine grandchildren.